How to know when to scale your team beyond a VA

Today’s episode of the podcast is all about how to know when to grow your business to more than one team member, and what kind of roles you might want to consider having. I’d love to know where you are at in your business right now - whether it’s just you, you have a VA or a whole team of people - please feel free to connect with me on my social media! KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST ● The common mistake people make when taking on a VA ● How to know when to scale your team beyond a VA ● The kind of tasks you could outsource to a team of people THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE If you do something more than twice in your business, you should not be the person doing it, because it's a process and a task. USEFUL LINKS Join the membership and access the Dream Business Growth Path Jen Lehner’s, Front Row CEO course Becci McEvoy, Social Media Marketer Phil Brett King, My Podcast Assistant Ben Bellamy, Web Designer Teresa Heath-Wareing Instagram Teresa Heath-Wareing LinkedIn Teresa Heath-Wareing Facebook Teresa Heath-Wareing Twitter Transcript

Hello and a super warm welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. I hope you are doing well. Firstly, I just wanna say thank you for some of the lovely messages that I have had on DMs and on social media about the change in episodes and how you're enjoying the shorter kind of bite size type episodes with just me.

So I really, really appreciate you reaching out, and now would be a really cheeky time to ask for a review. As I've told you before, The podcast because it's so consistent, it doesn't really do anything crazy amazing at any point. As in like, so when someone launches a new podcast, the, it can throw it high up in the charts cuz it had no episodes and now it has episodes, or it had no listeners and now it has listeners.

But when you are consistently churning out content and consistently showing up, it takes a lot of effort to actually get you ranking anywhere. Having reviews really, really helps. Also, if you know of someone who is in business that you think this might help, I'd really appreciate you sharing it. So just a little plea before we get started.

Okay. So let's talk about this week's episode and what we're gonna be focusing on. I've decided to focus on when you have a team member, how do you know when to grow to more than one team, team member? And how do you know who you need and what roles you need and that sort of thing? So let's just talk about sort of getting a first team member, the VA.

So normally a VA is the person that people get straight off the bat. They're the first team member they get. And one of the mistakes I find when people look for a VA is, and I remember someone once saying to me, I want them to be able to do all the website stuff. I want 'em to be able to create social media posts, do the scheduling, write some blogs, duh, duh, duh.

And it's like, gosh, this...